Wednesday, August 16, 2017

One of my all time fav SL singers, Toxie, Toxic Darkmatter has opened her own venue, The Arpeggio, at Forty Thieves Hideaway. Toxie is well known not only for her beautiful voice, but also for her design and decorating skills; She's designed sims for other venues previously but now she's opened up her own new space for live music events and her opening night tonight was a huge success with Erik Kottzen singing at 9 SLT followed by Gibson at 10. The venue is a beautiful ruins filled area with all the romantic lighting, plenty of cool pose spots, the super cool stage area with huge skull backdrop in the ruins of a theater setting, lots of well designed nature areas fun for hanging out, music shows, exploring and photography. I'm glad I hit this special opening night that was a huge success with a large crowd of lots of fun people. I look forward to future shows here. There is already a Flickr group for people to post their fav pics of the area or music event. You can post the pics here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/toxies-arpeggio/
Thanks Toxie for your contributions to SL and our fun times!

Sunday, August 13, 2017

It was great to hang out with my long-time friends Sonicity Fitzroy and Belinda Barnes at Soni's radio show "Slowbake" with SL Live Radio today. It's typically held each Sundays from 12-2pm unless Soni is out traveling or something. She plays SL live musician's music and we hang out with whoever joins us dancing to the tunes and having a good time. Join us some time or you can hear the show during these times wherever SL Live Radio is played inworld or on their stream.
SL Live Radio blog and Stream here: http://radiosllive.blogspot.co.uk/
Soni's blog here: http://sonicityradio.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Tonight I caught a triple stream live music show by Gabriel Da Silva, Toxie Darkmatter, and Erik Kotten at Solar Winds music venue. First Maxilillion Kleen sang, then Gab dual streamed with Max, then Gab sang a set and Toxie and Erik joined him for a few songs, then Eirk sang a set. Great night. They all did an amazing job. The venue really packs a crowd and has great talent all the time. Check it out some time. Visit Solar Winds here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Atlantis%20World%204/128/128/18

Friday, August 4, 2017

Free Sansar is open to try out beta for all, and I had to try of course. We've all been curious about this new Linden Labs platform designed to work with VR (virtual reality head mounted display headsets) and new technology for a while now. I don't have VR so I just went in anyway as it works fine to explore and creat in both HMD or desktop mode. There are minimum computer configuration requirements though but my laptop was able to run it. However, the first place I visited was a club and the graphics were washed out for my older laptop in spite of another person there saying the graphics were really great for him and appeared to him as the atlas image did. Then I visited another location that was much clearer with great graphics so I'm not sure if it was just my computer settling in or what specifically.

My impression is that persons with VR will have a much easier time moving and playing around and enjoying it in general. The graphics were great overall, and while the starter avatars left much to be desired regarding hair and facial look after coming from SL, the clothes were well designed with good textures, wrinkles, etc that looked realistic. I used my Kara Trapdoor name so I'll be the same in there as in SL. There are some basic customization options to the few starter avatars to select from. I met and added my first friend. There were other people out and about but most were new to it checking it out for the first time too and mostly moving from place to place looking around like I was. I snapped a couple of pictures to show.

The information page reminds us this is beta with many more features and much more content yet to come. They also make it clear Second Life is here to stay and Sansar does not take away from their love and dedication to Second life which they continue to invest in.. Yay for that! Sansar is just another option, so check it out if so inclined. Friend me there if you like! After a while my laptop just died and seemed hot so I came back in to play in the Second Life that I love. It was super cool to see for the first time though.

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Welcome to Kara's Korner SL. I've been enjoying the virtual world of Second Life over a year now and decided to start a blog about my explorations, events, pictures, fashion and other things I love about SL. There are already many informative and entertaining blogs and sites about SL, so this will mostly be for my blog experience, entertainment and SL documentation and for anyone who has an interest here. If you are unfamiliar with Second Life and would like to learn more or join, you can find more information here: http://secondlife.com/?v=1.1